After
America comes to prosecute its war criminals as Noam Chomsky has said
it must, psychologists will be seeking to understand the unmanly
behavior of so much of its military.

Headline News, November 9, 2012, Gen. David Petraeus
resigns as Director of CIA for "showing extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair"

Petraeus saw combat for the first time as a Major General commanding the
101st Airborne Division during V Corps's drive to Baghdad. Yours truly,
was at the time in India, where 50% of the coverage in newspapers and
on TV was of the horrific toll of civilian casualties during that
American invasion of Iraq. Every day of my three week stay in Calcutta, I
viewed videos of piles of bodies, including many children's corpses
with limbs, even heads torn away, women screaming, men crying.

The following year Petraeus, by then back in the States, seems to have sat out the citywide massacres in Fallujah, during April-May, but during the worse Fallujah massacres in
November, he was back in Iraq, training, equipping, and mentoring Iraq's
growing army, police, and other security forces.

Meanwhile In Fallujah, "Lockheed AC-130 gunships attacked with their
Gatling guns and howitzers. Scout Snipers became a core element of the
Marines' strategy, averaging 31 kills apiece in the battle, while PSYOP
Tactical Psychological Operations Teams from Tactical Psychological
Operations Detachment tried to lure Iraqis out into the open for the
Scout Snipers by reading scripts that were aimed at angering insurgent
fighters and by blaring ACDC along with Metallica and other rock music
over their loud speakers. Skin penetrating White Phosphorus and Napalm
were used. From within the Iraqi Governing Council, came, "these
operations by the Americans are unacceptable and illegal." [Wikipedia,
"Fallujah 2nd War']

"In January 2007, Petraeus was made commanding General of all U.S.
troops in Iraq. In August,The Washington Post stated that the Pentagon
had lost track of approximately 30% of weapons supplied to the Iraqi
security forces. The General Accounting Office said that the weapons
distribution was haphazard, rushed, and did not follow established
procedures--particularly from 2004 to 2005, when security training was
led by Petraeus. Over a hundred thousand AK-47 assault rifles and
pistols were delivered to Iraqi forces without full documentation, and
some of the missing weapons may have been abducted by Iraqi insurgents."

(But just as the mafia protects its own...)

"On September 20, the Senate passed an amendment by Republican John
Cornyn III of Texas designed to "strongly condemn personal attacks on
the honor and integrity of General Petraeus". and the House of
Representatives followed suit.

"On October 31, 2008, Petraeus assumed command of the United States
Central Command (USCENTCOM) headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Petraeus
was responsible for U.S. operations in 20 countries spreading from Egypt
to Pakistan--including Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring
Freedom."[Wikipedia, "James Petraeus']

Twenty-counties! Just note a few: the by then long term torturing of
Somalia by backing war lords, as in Afghanistan; supporting and arming
the military in Pakistan and Yemen against citizens revolting; and of
course, following through on the plan to knock over seven Middle Eastern
nations that Gen. Wesley Clark exposed to the public, which included
Libya, Syria and Iran.[1]

"In late June 23, 2010, Petraeus was made commander of U.S. Forces in
Afghanistan, technically a positional step down from his position as
commander of Central Command, and Petraeus made a "rare apology" following a NATO helicopter airstrip
under his command which resulted in the deaths of nine Afghan boys and
the wounding of a 10th, as they gathered firewood in Eastern
Afghanistan. In a statement, Petraeus apologized to the members of the
Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and the surviving family
members, and said: "These deaths should have never
happened.""[Wikipe dia]

The internationally recognized as corrupt President Karzai of
Afghanistan, installed in elections run according to US-NATO occupation
dictates, has for years every month or so 'demanded' US-NATO air strikes
in countryside and towns be halted, as did the Afghan National Assembly
in formal declaration calling for negotiations five years ago. So, on
the contrary, Gen. Petraeus, the nine deaths of little boys you saw fit
to excuse with "should not of happened" by all logic and expectation
were intended to happen, for this, and worse atrocities, had been
happening repeatedly, for ten years.

Petraeus was nominated CIA Head on April 28, 2010, while his predecessor
Leon Panetta would have already long begun taking wealthy Libya down.
protests, and immediate armed attacks had been called for and
coordinated from a CIA funded organization in London began in earnest on
15 February 2011 as well reported. On the evening of 15 February,
between 500 and 600 demonstrators protested in front of Benghazi's
police headquarters ... Crowds were armed with petrol bombs and threw
stones. Marchers hurled Molotov cocktails in a downtown square in
Benghazi, damaging cars, blocking roads, and hurling rocks. Police
responded to crowds with tear gas, water cannon, and rubber bullets,
people were injured, among them ten security personnel." [ Wikpedia
"Libyan Civil War']

In late April, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice
alleged that soldiers loyal to Gaddafi were given Viagra and encouraged
to commit rapes in rebel-held or disputed areas.(?)

The month after Obama nominated Petraeus as CIA Head, military
operations were under way, with US forces and one British submarine
firing cruise missiles, the French Air Force, United States Air Force
and British Royal Air Force.

Stretching our emotions, Obama, in his speech explaining how fine
America was, bombing a well kept African nation of only six million
inhabitants (and a lot of oil well and $44 billion in gold) saw it
worthwhile to go on about some woman complaining to Western reporters in
Tripoli hotel of being raped on "brutal dictator Gadaffi's orders.
Insurgent-conquered Benghazi, from which Western reporters were not
reporting, was, according to CNN and Obama, about to suffer massacres,
but in cities and towns insurgents had been expelled from, no known
retribution had taken place and indeed Obama or CIA directors had not
one single video or photo of any peaceful demonstrations of any
substantial size nor evidence of their having been fired upon.[2][3]

Two weeks before Petraeus was confirmed as CIA Head, on June 30th,
nearly one million of a population of only six, had demonstrated wildly
in favor of their government and Gadaffi, even while US (Panetta and
Petraeus's Successor at Central Command) was having the French and
British bomb the hell out of their country

By September 6th, when sworn in a CIA Director, he is overseeing the
last ghastly and deadly final destruction of what UN statistics held as
the 53 highest human developed nation in the world.

As of September 2011, Sirte and Bani Walid, were the last cities
unconquered by the combined attack of NATO-US planes and helicopters and
Western i.e. CIA backed insurgents.

Not just CIA Directors, as in the case of the Church Committee
investigations of 1974, but President Obama and many public, secret and
corporate officials of the former colonial empires of Europe will be
indicted and prosecuted for crimes against humanity in Libya and
elsewhere.

Could fear of this future possibly have had something to do with
Petraeus wanting to resign, or insurpressable news that "within a week
after the fall of the last city, evidence emerged of mass killings of
loyalist prisoners of war and other civilian supporters of Gaddafi's
government. The victims killed included men, women, and children, while
there were also reports of the rebels harassing and stealing from the
locals. According to one resident, "The rebels are worse than rats. Nato
is the same as Osama bin Laden." According to another local woman, "We
lived in democracy under Muammer Gaddafi, he was not a dictator. I lived
in freedom, Libyan women had full human rights. It isn't that we need
Muammar Gaddafi again, but we want to live just as we did before." A
local elderly woman stated "They are killing our children. Why are they
doing this? For what? Life was good before!"
On 24 October, Human Rights Watch reported that 53 pro-Gaddafi fighters
were seemingly executed by NTC fighters after they had discovered the
remains of the 53 men at the Mahari hotel in Sirte that had been under
control of the rebel fighters. Peter Bouckaert, the rights group's
emergencies director, said the badly decomposed bodies were found by
local residents three days before on 21 October. Some had their hands
bound behind their backs. "The evidence suggests that some of the
victims were shot while being held as prisoners, when that part of Sirte
was controlled by anti-Gaddafi brigades who appear to act outside the
control of the National Transitional Council," Mr. Bouckaert said. "If
the NTC fails to investigate this crime it will signal that those who
fought against Gaddafi can do anything without fear of prosecution." By
26 October, it was reported that the bodies of 267 executed loyalists
had been found across the city. The nearly 300 bodies were all buried in
several mass graves around Sirte. Another 572 loyalists, who were
killed during the fighting, were reportedly buried in a local cemetery.
[Wikipedia, "Libyan Civil War']

Whew! Any half-intelligent person must realize that this is what war crimes tribunal testimony sounds like.

Of course imperialist war promoting corporate owned media is already
putting some spin on Petraeus' resignation. Criminal media, by
emphasizing CIA failure to protect its own in Benghazi, is telling its
audience to forget what is now becoming no longer concealable, namely
what the CIA led Western powers did to Libya, now in murderous chaos -
(something, according to Martin Luther King Jr. that divide-and-conquer
investors, always find favorable).

We have no way of knowing what crimes Petraeus might have ordered
secretly committed as Head of the CIA during the last year and two
months, but some CIA files will probably be eventually forced open by
successful filings under the Freedom of Information Act. According to
the Nuremberg Principles, that are part of the US Constitution,[4]
Petraeus can and must be indicted for the illegal taking of lives in
Iraq and Afghanistan, both when he commanded troops operating
unconstitutionally and criminally in these US invaded countries and also
while planning and overseeing massive crimes from his position in the
Joint Chiefs of Command in Washington.

Of the twenty-four war criminals indicted at Nuremberg in 1945, seven
were generals. Four were hanged and three received life sentences. As we
have watched, on television, the bodies of Afghans and Iraqis pile up
in their own beloved countries while General Petraeus was in various
commands we remembered similar piles of men women and children resulting
from past illegal military invasions and bombing, Koreans,
Guatemalans, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodians, Lebanese, Dominicans,
Panamanians, Iranians, Indonesians, Salvadorans, Grenadians, Cubans,
Chileans, and last year Libyans and now Syrians, Pakistanis, Yemeni and
Somalians.

I have little doubt of the coming trials of US generals and CIA heads
and operatives, US presidents and their investor backers, both those
alive and the rest posthumously for what Ron Paul calls merciless
unconstitutional and undeclared wars[5] which Martin Luther King Jr.
taught were all meant to maintain unjust predatory overseas
investments.[4]

Did some inkling of possible future ignominy and retribution cross James
Petraeus' mind? He never looked like a man without a conscience, or a
man clever enough to set conscience aside.

When I was twelve years old, I remember my sense of pride in each new Boy Scout Merit Badge I qualified for.

But Petraeus' long list of colorful ribbons for having efficiently
brought death to people in their own county and of establishment
generated awards boggle the mind. He doesn't come across as very swift,
but is praised in the empire's ubiquitous propaganda machine as a "top
public intellectual," a kind of Einstein and Mohammed Ali rolled into
one. [6] [see list in color]

Especially like 'A Clockwork Orange' worldwide are the university
Honorary Laws degrees for a general who, by following presidential
orders is exercising a right to obliterate any man, woman or child on
the planet.

... but no right to cheat on his wife.

[1]

I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days
after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and
Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some
of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of
the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk
to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He
says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was
on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with
Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know
what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information
connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's
nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with
Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about
terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down
governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a
hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."

So I came back to see him a few
weeks later, and by that time we were
bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?"
And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He
picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from
upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he
said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven
countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it
classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me."
And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He
said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to
you!"click here

Friday, April 22, 2011 Capitalism's Warplanes: CIA & al Qaeda Destroy Socialist Libya's 53rd Highest Living Standard An
imperative more basic than keeping US backed dictators in power and
eliminating non-capitalist regimes is at work in Libya and the Middle
East. An imperative that has created all wars. It is imperative for
private investment financial capital to accumulate, and to accumulate at
an ever increasing rate, pushing the wealthy owners of capital into
ever new variations of same ancient conspiracy of the rich against the
poor. click here

N ic Robertson and
Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the
human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully
well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in
the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that
was higher than nine European nations, including Russia, is no more,
thanks to their having daily led our entertainment with their war
mongering of purposely distorted reporting, misreporting,
disinformation, and blacking out of information that would have made
this massive loss of human life impossible. They'll not be able to wash
this off their conscience.

In 2007, Time
named Petraeus one of the 100 most influential leaders and
revolutionaries of the year as well as one of its four runners up for
Time Person of the Year; The Daily Telegraph' s 2007 Man of the Year ; In 2005; America's top leaders by US News and World Report.

In 2008, Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines: one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals. Static Line Association 2008 Airborne Man of the Year, and Der Spiegel named him "America's most respected soldier."Newsweek - 16th most powerful person in the world;Prospect magazine"Public Intellectual of the Year". "75 Best People in the World" in 2009 Esquire ; OSS Society Donovan Award; The National Committee on American Foreign Policy
(NCAFP) George F. Kennan Award for
Distinguished Public Service. American Legion Distinguished
Service Meda l;

2010, Princeton University's
Madison Medal; Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Freedom Award ; American Political Science Association (APSA) Hubert H. Humphrey Award for notable public service by a political scientist ; Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2010; Time magazine's 50 "People Who Mattered;" 12 of 50 in 2010 by the New Statesmen magazine; number 8 of 100 Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers; 2011 Time 100 ; Institute for the Study of War National Security Leadership Award; New Statesman
annual survey most influential people; number 2 of the 50 for 2011 ; Association of Special Operations Professionals 2011 Man of the Year; 2012, 50 Most Powerful People in Washington" by GQ magazine; Reserve Officers
Association's Minuteman Hall of Fame; 2012 ROA National Security Symposium; German Order of Merit; knighted at the Hague with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange
Nassau with swords;

Command and General Staff College Foundation's 2012 Distinguished
Leadership Award; 2012 Jefferson Award for Public
Service; Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Award; International Relations Council
Distinguished Service Award for International Statesmanship; New York Stock ring The Opening Bell to commemorate the
65th anniversary of the CIA; Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmans' Club Service to the Nation Award .

Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India and the US; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles (more...)